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This can mean showing a tenant that he can fight his landlord's attempts to evict him. Or it can mean telling a welfare recipient that a social worker has no right to search his home. A great deal of talk is often required simply to uncover the problems, since CLAO clients frequently do not realize their legal rights...
...Sometimes you uncover a problem that wasn't there before. That's where the clients come in with one problem and have another problem solved that was on their mind but they hadn't realized," he explained. "You know, somebody comes in who has been a landlord-tenant problem. You find that she also has a welfare problem and then you help her out on your own initiative...
CLAO's practice. CLAO clients include tenant unions, consumer groups, the Cambridge Tenants' Senate, and a chapter of the Welfare Rigths Organization...
...least 100 black tenant farmers have been evicted by white landowners, and blacks still enter white-owned cafés by the back door-even though legal discrimination no longer exists. Whites have accepted black school enrollments up to 22% without much fuss, but when desegregation orders raise black representation to at least 66% in September, those whites who can afford the $400-a-year tuition will doubtless pour into the private cement-block Warrior Academy. One young teacher there explains: "There's so much low intelligence among the blacks...
From the beginning of the war in Viet Nam, nothing has proved more difficult to capture than the allegiance of the peasantry, particularly the landless tenant farmers. Well aware of the issue's importance, the Viet Cong have long made a point of redistributing land under their control. A succession of Saigon governments paid due obeisance to the ideal of land reform, but did nothing. Last week, in the Mekong Delta center of Can Tho, President Nguyen Van Thieu signed into law a land-reform bill that, he said, would help "each tenant to become a landowner enjoying...